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Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

I've never heard of this software category before. For decades, I've managed this info with an online calendar (annual reminders for birthdays, for example), and online contact/address book (notes section heavily levegered). This is pretty cool - thanks for bringing it to my attention!

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by matheusmoreira »

robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

Thank you for your work! I didn't realize software like this existed, will definitely try it out.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by pc2g4d »

I built an Android app a few years ago in a similar vein. It would look at texts and call logs (email was next) and use it to prioritize social relationships from your contacts. Then it would let you set goals for contact frequency, make notes, etc.

But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched. (It was bullshit---shouldn't have bet on the Play store, as I didn't have the political sway to be protected.)

Glad to see this being worked on!

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by klabb3 »

pc2g4d wrote: post #93

I built an Android app a few years ago in a similar vein. It would look at texts and call logs (email was next) and use it to prioritize social relationships from your contacts. Then it would let you set goals for contact frequency, make notes, etc. But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched. (It was bullshit---shouldn't have bet on the Play store, as I didn't hav…

> But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched.

Sad but real. The best way to model this is through risk. APIs can't be trusted to exist in the future, so relying on them is a business risk. I really hope proprietary platform APIs and the poorly justified app store companions, all fall under their own weight, at some point, and perhaps from the ashes we will see open standards emerge. One can hope.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by pyuser583 »

robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

Is this exclusive web app? If so what privacy protections do you have?

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by kilroy123 »

rngname22 wrote: post #24

The one big problem I have with this (and I do take notes after some types of conversations with for example first dates through fifth dates to remember important things about people), is that I fear that if I truly took good notes on conversations with loved ones that if the data ever gets leaked / hacked that I've just 1000% fucked everyone I've spoken to and took notes about, if I record anything that is highly pe…

I have the exact same fear. That's why I stopped using it.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by dotancohen »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #89
rtheunissen wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using PHP for a decade and recently started building APIs in Go. Everything about the process has been significantly simpler, from packages to testing to deploying and debugging. I don't think I can ever go back, and this is coming from someone who still loves PHP and works with both Go and Laravel daily.

I've been exploring doing some of my PHP stuff in Go and my opinion has been the complete opposite. PHP, I can just start composing a page; Go, I have to implement a router and serving static content.

The Monica dev mentioned Laravel in this thread. In Laravel, one also must start with defining a router.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by SEJeff »

robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

Why are you rewriting it from scratch?

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by divbzero »

robinhood wrote: post #81
danmur wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the Chandler name a reference to the Chandler PIM?

No. It's a codename in reference to Monica and the Friends tv show. Chandler being the one who dates Monica (no spoiler). Right now we have two repos on Github, but we have to find a way to merge Chandler to Monica in the future so we don't lose those precious stars :-)

When you manage to combine those repos, you should post one of those big road signs that says: MERGE!

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by binkHN »

pc2g4d wrote: post #93

I built an Android app a few years ago in a similar vein. It would look at texts and call logs (email was next) and use it to prioritize social relationships from your contacts. Then it would let you set goals for contact frequency, make notes, etc. But Google locked down their APIs except for a chosen few pre-approved apps and I never launched. (It was bullshit---shouldn't have bet on the Play store, as I didn't hav…

I made something somewhat similar. It too uses text and call logs to make decisions. It's called CommuniqAI and it can be found at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga.
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